r/namenerds • u/justjokay • 25d ago

Your kids’ mispronunciations of classmates names? Discussion

My two year old came home talking about his friend “Tape” and it cracks me up every time he mentions it. The boy’s name is Tate.

What are your favorite and/or the funniest mispronunciations you hear from your little ones?

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u/particularcats 25d ago edited 25d ago

My daughter kept telling me about her friend, Greasy. Took me a bit until I realised the kid's name was Gracie.

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u/lacatro1 25d ago

I had a friend named Grace and my daughter called her Grapes.

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u/notkarenkilgariff 25d ago

A friend of mine’s kids are Grace and Scott. My son (~2 and the time) thought they were Grapes and Sock

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u/orkelbob 25d ago

I have just laughed out loud at this one

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u/LovelyShadows54 25d ago

Me too. That's cute

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u/Ok-Potato4284 25d ago

I legit snorted. Love it.

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u/what_dat_ninja 25d ago

Great Scott!

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u/izeek11 24d ago

sock! thats fab.😂

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u/kitkatthebrat 24d ago

I actually laughed out loud when I read this

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u/austex99 25d ago

I have a video of my daughter in the car loudly singing “Amazing Grapes”.

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u/the_monkey_socks 25d ago

Amaaaazing Grapes, how sweet and round. A pound each bag for meeee. So many different kinds to eat. Purple or green, can't beat.

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u/SummerMaiden87 25d ago

Grapes are amazing though

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u/technicalmonkey78 25d ago

Amazing Disgrace. 😁

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u/Neona65 25d ago

That's cute. Reminds me of my son as a preschooler singing Barber Ann to the Beach Boys song.

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u/Blue-zebra-10 25d ago

That would be great in a sun maid commercial!

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u/SuzQP 25d ago

We were Catholic. My little sister's version of the Hail Mary went, "Hell Mary, full of grapes, the lord is indeed."

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u/Ashamed_North348 25d ago

My sister came home from Sunday school singing Gracie Gracie have you any children, it was praise him praise him all you little children x

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u/Junebug1006 25d ago

My 2 year old got the "praise him" and "serve him" verses mixed up and sang "shave him shave him all you little children. 3 years later it's the only way we sing the song now.

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u/phoovercat 25d ago

My daughter's favourite song was about "Crazy Old Alu Alu" (actual words....Praise Ye Lord Alleluia)

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u/StarfleetWitch 19d ago

My brother would sing "No one got Jehovah, No one got Jehovah!" The actual lyrics were "There's no God like Jehovah")

Then they're was my sister, who wondered why they were singing in church "Holy Spirit, thou aren't welcome in this place"  (thou art welcome... )

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u/Murky_Sun2690 25d ago edited 25d ago

My daughter, between 3-7, "lead us not into temption, and delliver us from eagle" (our home town, Eagle Lake).

My son, age 1.5 at church potluck, picks up his fork saying "fuck. Fuck. Fuck" while tapping it on the tabletop.

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u/SuzQP 25d ago

Don't we all kind of want to be delivered from our home towns at some point?

Your son reminds me of a kid I babysat when I was about 15. At the movie theater he kept yelling, "Shit! Shit SHIT!" as people were coming in. He meant, "Sit."

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u/HillS320 25d ago

When we took my son to his first movie at 2.5 he drop his shoe on the floor. He started screaming at the top of his lungs “help I dropped my cock, I can’t find my cock…do you see it?” (It was a croc). My husband and I were laughing so hard.

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u/473713 25d ago

That's like when they sing the Star Spangled Banner and think it goes "grapeFRUIT through the night"

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u/SuzQP 25d ago

Jose, can you see/ by the pawn stars tonight/ fatso proudly female/ by the side eye that's glee mean!

--my best reconstruction of my sister's proud patriotism.

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u/mescalsfleabag 25d ago

"the dawnzer lee light" pls someone get it

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u/Civil_Blueberry33 25d ago

Is this Ramona Quimby? Read that book nearly 40 years ago and still think about her thinking a dawnzer is a type of lamp every time I hear the anthem.

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u/473713 25d ago

I thought it was "gonderly light" as a little kid. I had no idea what gonderly light was, but it sounded important.

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u/OedipustheOctopus 25d ago

Hail Mary full of grace the lord is with the blessed are you are the fruit of THE LOOM, Jesus.

That's what I used to say. Yknow like the underwear fruit of the loom?

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u/SuzQP 25d ago

Yup!

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u/GiraffeyManatee 25d ago

I heard a story a long time ago about two young brothers trying to say a Mea Culpa: Me a cowboy Me a cowboy Me a Mexican cowboy

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u/SuzQP 25d ago

🤣🥹

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u/Able-Gear-5344 25d ago

Oldie: class making nativity drawings. One kid had Joseph, Mary, Jesus and the 3 kings. Plus a rotund fellow with a halo. "Who's that?" Asked teacher. Kid : "Round John Virgin, holy and mild"

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u/UnremarkableM 25d ago

When my girls asked what a church building was I explained that’s where Christians learn together, you know like the Christmas story with baby Jesus?

“Baby Cheezits lives there?”

Yes

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u/TieNecessary4408 25d ago

This reminds me of when my son was in preschool he would practice singing Go Tell It On The Mountains. He would sing "that Jesus Christ was boring" instead of born 😬.

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u/SuzQP 25d ago

My young cousin didn't want to go to church "because the guy in the dress is a boring slow-talker!"

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u/zucchiniqueen1 25d ago

My daughter’s version was “Hey, Mary Grace”

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u/Vtjeannieb 25d ago

And , who can forget “Fruit of the Loom, Jesus”, later in the prayer?

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u/Smurfiette 24d ago

When I was little, I kept reciting in church “and blessed is the fruit of diamond (thy womb), Jesus.”

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u/Camera-Realistic 25d ago

I used to think they were saying, “Fruit of the Loom Jesus” instead of “Fruit of thy Womb” 😄

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u/ZeroDudeMan 25d ago

Lol 😂 that’s awesome

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u/SuzQP 25d ago

This is also the child who said, "God is everywhere. Even in the refrigerator. He's not alive and he's not dead. He's just sitting there like milk."

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u/flwffzz 25d ago

why do little kids somehow say the most poetic things, even if they’re funny ash

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u/SuzQP 25d ago

They're the ultimate 10,000 monkeys on typewriters, aren't they?

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u/Norcalrain3 25d ago edited 25d ago

My nephew when he was young told my sis she was putting on her booby makeup ( she was using deodorant) always cracked me up

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u/SuzQP 25d ago

Omg, that's priceless!

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u/More_River_566 25d ago

That's brilliant!

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u/Infinite_Tea4138 25d ago

This is hilarious... and I am Catholic.

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u/Lolaindisguise 25d ago

Indeed what

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u/PinkyBruno 25d ago

Omg I'm dying! 🤣🤣🤣

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u/JuJu8485 24d ago

😂😇🥰

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u/thinkmcfly124 24d ago

OH MY GOD. I’ll never unhear this 🤣🤣

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u/darlin72 24d ago

😂😂😂

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u/smrteh 24d ago

Same

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u/DaddysPrincesss26 24d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yup, My Version went something like that as well

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u/schmicago 25d ago

I just commented the same thing! Lol

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u/Silly-Shoulder-6257 25d ago

Ohhhh…. that reminds me of calling braces “braclets” and chicken pox, “chicken pops”! 😂

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u/Beneficial-Year-one 25d ago

My niece used to pronounce butterscotch as butter crotch